10 itching Bears questions

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Blanchard, the quarterback who's now out with a broken hand, looked pretty good in the preseason loss against Carolina. His Wikipedia page says he played a majority of his college ball at Division III University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, which sounds made up. Are we sure this is a real school? Where did Matt Blanchard REALLY come from? I feel like we're being Manti Te'oed here.

Did you know CFL teams get only three downs in a series? And the field is 110 yards long, with a "C" line in the middle between two 50-yard lines? And their end zones are twice as deep? Did you forget this information already? I bet you did. The good news is, the way the Bears have played offense for the past 20 years or so, punting on third down might not be a bad idea.

The Bears are hard at work trying to mold the team into what approximates fighting trim. I'm sure you're familiar with the obvious storylines surrounding this year's squad.

How will the defense respond to the retirement of Brian Urlacher? How drastically will the offense change under new coach Marc Trestman? Will a revamped offensive line block more effectively for the last year of Jay Cutler's contract?

These are the burning questions. But they are boring, and their only answer is, "We'll just have to wait and see." I'm not interested in the burning questions, I want answers to the itching questions.